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Lorand Hegyi (born in Hungary; currently resides in France) is one of the foremost European curators and art historians. He is currently the director of Le Musée d'art moderne de Saint-Etienne. He is the former director of the Museum Moderner Kunst / Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, and founding director of the new Centre Arte Contemporanea in Naples. Hegyi is a respected critic specializing in modern and contemporary art from Central and East Europe and the author of numerous publications on contemporary art and cultural criticism. His publications include "New Sensibility - Change of Paradigm in Contemporary Art" (Budapest, 1993), "Roman Opalka's Places" (Prestel, 2000), and "The Courage to Be Alone - Re-inventing of Narratives in Contemporary Art" (Charta, 2004). Lorand Hegyi was co-curator of the Venice Biennial in 1993; Toyama Biennial in 1993; artistic director of the Sculpture Triennial of Stuttgart in 1995; and curator of the Valencia Biennial 2003.
Recent thematic exhibitions:
2005, The Giving Person, Naples
2004, Passage Europe: Art from Central and East Europe, Saint-Etienne
Settlements: Search for Possible Places, Saint-Etienne
2003, Solares: The Ideal City or the Optimism, Valencia Biennial
2002, Concepts of Space, Barcelona
1999, La Casa, il Corpo, il Cuore - Construction of Identities, Vienna
1996, Abstract/Real - Reference: Malevich, Duchamp, Beuys, Vienna
1995, Europe/Asia: Positions of Contemporary Sculpture, 7th Sculpture Triennial of Stuttgart
Štutgart
1993, Co-existence of Art: Central European Artists, 45th Venice Biennial
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